Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (194 mails)

[Valur Olafsson <volafsso@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 13:27, R Kimber wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:46:33 -0400
>
> Valur Olafsson <volafsso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.  I've had these lockups even while I'm not
> > using a browser.  In fact, yesterday I connected to the internet,
> > then needed to step away from the computer for a bit.  When I came
> > back, the computer had locked up and I needed to do a hard reboot.
>
> What video driver are you using?  There is a separate type of freeze
> that can happen with the nvidia driver in which eveything locks up
> except the mouse.  That can be cured by using the nv driver, or I have
> read that a 2.6.11 kernel fixes it, but I've not tried that.
>
> - Richard

I have an ATI video card, and I am running the ATI supplied drivers.  But I 
was having problems anyway before I upgraded to the ATI supplied drivers.

- Valur

> --
> Richard Kimber
> British General Election 2005
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge05.htm